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Hannes Langeder, Ferdinand GT3 RS

2051: Smart Life in the City – Hannes Langeder, Ferdinand GT3 RS

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Stadtradio Orange [city radio Orange]

HYPOTOPIA–Milliardenstadt [billions city] demonstration procession along Vienna’s Ringstraße

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Free play on Wiener Spielstraße [Vienna’s play street]

2051: Smart Life in the City – Demonstrator #5 – The Shopping Mall

2051: Smart Life in the City – Demonstrator #10 – The Open Space

2051

Smart Life in the City

Thu, 11.06.2015–Sun, 04.10.2015

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

VIENNA BIENNALE 2015
Exhibition

2051

Smart Life in the City

Thu, 11.06.2015–Sun, 04.10.2015
MAK Exhibition Hall

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Organized by the MAK and Vienna Business Agency, departure


Under the Vienna Biennale motto “Ideas for Change,” the exhibition contribution 2051: Smart Life in the City takes a look at an alternative future for urban living and investigates the role of design as a tool for a sustainable and solidary lifestyle. Here design is understood to be less a discipline than a strategy that will significantly alter the future context and work environment of people active in creative fields. Complex problems require interdisciplinary cooperation, collective approaches, and the integration of creativity as a mass phenomenon. Besides expert craftsmanship, this calls for a high degree of social competence. Digitalization as an engine for technical and social innovation, which is also brought about by friction at the interface between top-down and bottom-up interests, forms the city as the dominant living environment of the 21st century.


In the Global North, the term “smart city” embodies this positive change on a citywide scale. A smart city is resource-efficient, networked, and sustainable in order to achieve goals like CO2 reduction targets and meet the needs of an aging population. Such a city needs “smart citizens,” who form groups or launch citizens’ initiatives and take responsibility for their neighborhoods. The scaling of good ideas until they reach critical mass is essential for achieving change, similar to the trim tab that allows a tanker to alter its course.


2051—an Orwellian inversion of 2015, the year of the first Vienna Biennale—seems far away. By then today’s children and teens will no doubt be asking if we charted the right course. In light of dystopian prognoses about the future, the exhibition seeks out alternative narratives that are about the common good instead of the striving for growth.


Ten project teams that have already collected viable experiences in the urban sphere and come up with new strategies were invited to construct so-called “demonstrators” at various locations in Vienna. These are experimental prototypes for mobility, work, money, healthcare, housing, sustenance, hospitality, shopping, and entertainment in a context of urban daily life. Their example is instructive and provides a basis for negotiating the future. These visions are not based on futuristic scenarios, but on a philosophy of incremental change, which is already happening today on a small scale.


The demonstrators are also metaphorically located in HYPOTOPIA, a sprawling, fragmentary city model in the MAK exhibition. In addition to the ten blueprints for future urban development, other protagonists and strategies will be presented with the goal of animating visitors to take part in this transformation and in shaping their environment.


Demonstrators
The School (Demonstrator 1) / Van Bo Le-Mentzel, Jakob Listabarth & Crowd  
The Bank (Demonstrator 2) / Projekt Bank für Gemeinwohl     
The Factory (Demonstrator 3) / Thomas Schneider,NANK  
The Hospital (Demonstrator 4) / ID2 die Angewandte 
The Shopping Mall (Demonstrator 5) / Julia Landsiedl, jeplus
The Street (Demonstrator 6) / future.lab TU Wien
The Stadium (Demonstrator 7) / SUBOTRON
The Hotel (Demonstrator 8) / AllesWirdGut Architektur
The Home (Demonstrator 9) / Klaus Kada
The Open Space (Demonstrator 10) / Samstag

Curators
Harald Gruendl, Co-Partner, EOOS and Director of the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna, and Thomas Geisler, Curator, MAK Design Collection


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Media

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Hannes Langeder, <i>Ferdinand GT3 RS</i>
Hannes Langeder, Ferdinand GT3 RS
bicycle-Porsche for deceleration and ecologically gentle mobility, 2010
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Exhibition View
ID2/Fiona Raby, Demonstrator: The Hospital, Project: EXVIVO
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Exhibition View
Hannes Langeder, Ferdinand GT3 RS, Bicycle-Porsche for deceleration and ecologically gentle mobility, 2010
<i>Stadtradio Orange</i> [city radio Orange]
Stadtradio Orange [city radio Orange]
leads to the creation of a mind map for places of change in Vienna.
HYPOTOPIA–Milliardenstadt [billions city] demonstration procession along Vienna’s Ringstraße
HYPOTOPIA–Milliardenstadt [billions city] demonstration procession along Vienna’s Ringstraße
in the course of which several tons of concrete chunks of the city model were brought to Parliament and disposed of, 2014
Exhibition View
Exhibition View
NANK/Kunstkanal, Demonstrator: The Factory, New Factories, 2015
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Exhibition View
Thomas Amann, Enormously racy interaction device for cooperative architecture experiments ERIKA, 2015
Free play on <i>Wiener Spielstraße</i> [Vienna’s play street]
Free play on Wiener Spielstraße [Vienna’s play street]
Phorusgasse in Vienna’s Wieden district

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